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ReviewJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2016

Mitochondrial fission and fusion in secondary brain damage after CNS insults.

Justin Balog, Suresh L Mehta, Raghu Vemuganti

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Review in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Justin BalogDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Suresh L MehtaDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Raghu VemugantiDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA vemuganti@neurosurgery.wisc.edu.
Neurological Surgery · USWilliam S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondria are dynamically active organelles, regulated through fission and fusion events to continuously redistribute them across axons, dendrites, and synapses of neurons to meet bioenergetics requirements and to control various functions, including cell proliferation, calcium buffering, neurotransmission, oxidative stress, and apoptosis. However, following acute or chronic injury to CNS, altered expression and function of proteins that mediate fission and fusion lead to mitochondrial dynamic imbalance. Particularly, if the fission is abnormally increased through pro-fission mediators such as Drp1, mitochondrial function will be impaired and mitochondria will become susceptible to insertion of proapototic proteins. This leads to the formation of mitochondrial transition pore, which eventually triggers apoptosis. Thus, mitochondrial dysfunction is a major promoter of neuronal death and secondary brain damage after an insult. This review discusses the implications of mitochondrial dynamic imbalance in neuronal death after acute and chronic CNS insults.

Indexed as

Mitochondrial DynamicsBrain InjuriesCentral Nervous SystemHumansApoptosisfissionfusionmitochondrianeuroprotection

Identifiers

PMID27677674
PMCPMC5363672
OpenAlexW2524072988

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